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PLASTIC MAN #40

Cover Date: March 1953
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Alex Kotzky


Story: "Maker of Monsters!" (10 Pages)

Credits:

ArtAlex Kotzky
Assistant editingRichard Arnold
EditingAl Grenet

Feature Character(s):

Plastic Man

Supporting Character(s):

Woozy Winks
Chief Branner

Villain(s):

A circus troupe (first appearance for all; persuades an atomic scientist to stay with the circus and rebuild their rides)
Wiggly Wanda (first appearance; a counterfeiter who performs as Little Egypt and seduces Dr. Burke)

Comment(s):

This story takes place in summer.


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Second Story: [No Title] (4 Pages)

Credits:

Creators: saw no args

Feature Character(s):

Woozy Winks

Villain(s):

Gaffer Diggs and Pug Gluck (first appearance for both; run a phony fat reducing clinic)


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Third Story: "Ghoul of Ghost Swamp" (7 Pages)

Credits:

Creators: saw no args

Feature Character(s):

Plastic Man

Supporting Character(s):

Woozy Winks

Villain(s):

Gus Glumm (first appearance; manager of a funeral home/boarding house)
Fatso Rink and Ape App (first appearance; two known criminals waiting for plastic surgery)
The Ghoul (Doc Cutter; first appearance; operating a clandestine plastic surgery clinic for crooks in the swamp)

Location(s):

Sunburn City, FL


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Fourth Story: "Trap Trappers" (2 Pages)

Credits:

Creators: saw no args

Feature Character(s):

Plastic Man

Supporting Character(s):

Woozy Winks

Villain(s):

Trapper Trane and his gang (first appearance for all)

Comment(s):

This is a text story.


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Fifth Story: "Yesterday's Murders!" (7 Pages)

Credits:

Creators: saw no args

Feature Character(s):

Plastic Man

Supporting Character(s):

Woozy Winks
Chief Branner

Villain(s):

Bow-Wow Barker Mob (first appearance for all)
John Wilkes Booth

Other Character(s):

Dinwiddy Doap (first appearance; a writer and inventor who creates a history viewing device that accidentally transports Plas and Woozy back in time)
President Abraham Lincoln and Mrs. Lincoln (temporarily saved by Plastic Man)

Story Reprinted in:

Plastic Man #55 (October 1955)


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